X3: Albion Prelude

from Egosoft

Overview

X3: Albion Prelude is a program developed by Egosoft. Upon installation, it defines an auto-start registry entry which allows the program run on each boot for the user which installed it. A scheduled task is added to Windows Task Scheduler in order to launch the program at various scheduled times (the schedule varies depending on the version). The software is designed to connect to the Internet and adds a Windows Firewall exception in order to do so without being interfered with. The main program executable is X3AP.exe. The software installer includes 40 files and is usually about 8.58 MB (8,999,240 bytes). In comparison to the total number of users, most PCs are running the OS Windows 7 (SP1) as well as Windows 8. While about 48% of users of X3: Albion Prelude come from the United States, it is also popular in Germany and United Kingdom.